Bulldogs run down Foxes for Homecoming

The CWC Bulldogs finally came home to play a game on Friday, and it was a much welcomed return. The team was coming off back to back regular season losses since 2010 and needed a win.

The CWC Bulldogs finally came home to play a game on Friday, and it was a much welcomed return. The team was coming off back to back regular season losses since 2010 and needed a win.

Enter the Hamilton Co. Foxes. The Foxes have not won a game in some time, but Kurt Simon was concerned earlier in the week about mistakes the team has made, and the fact that Hamilton Co., while winless, was an improving team.

The film from this season showed Simon that the Foxes had been in every game this season in the first half, but wore down in the second. The Bulldogs came in knowing they needed to build an early lead. And they did.

The Bulldogs scored 14 points in the first quarter, but added 26 more in the second quarter to go into halftime with a huge 40-6 lead. They won the game 55-13.

CWC kicked the scoring off with a big 41-yard run by Chase Sailer for a touchdown. Sailer then tacked on the extra point. The Bulldogs second score was another big run, this time by Logan Weller, going 33-yards to the end zone. Another Sailer extra point made the score 14-0 after the first quarter.

The second quarter, or at least the second half of the second quarter belonged to CWC senior newcomer Brodie Brown.

However, Weller got in on the action again first, catching a nine-yard touchdown pass, which he had to fight Lucas Mercer for from Jordan Large.

Hamilton Co. was able to capitalize on a Bulldog mistake in the middle of the quarter, scoring on an 88-yard touchdown pass, making the score 21-6.

Brodie Brown then came in and scored his first touchdown, on a huge 67-yard reception. He then only waited two minutes to score his second, on a 20-yard touchdown pass, both from Sailer. Sailer would also score again himself before the half on a 17-yard run.

The second half was all about the Bulldogs running the clock out. They did such a good job that Hamilton Co. only were able to run four plays from scrimmage the entire second half; two incompletions, a run for a loss and a punt.

Weller picked up the only score in the third quarter, on a four-yard run. Drew Lucas scored for the Bulldogs on a run in the fourth and Draven Davis added the two-point conversion. The Foxes did get on the board once more on a late 82-yard kick return.

When the final horn sounded, the Bulldogs had moved to 3-3 with a 55-13 win.

Sailer led the team in rushing and passing, running for 147 yards on 10 carries and going six of 10 passing for 116 yards and two touchdowns.

Leading the team in receiving was Brown with four catches for 96 yards and two touchdowns.

Defensively, the Bulldogs had three interceptions, two by Weller and one by Mercer. Codi Cross and Stephen Quitugua both recovered fumbles as well.

Quitugua, Tyson Russell and Nik Brown all led the defense with four tackles each, and Brown added a sack.

Coach Simon was pleased with the team’s performance.

“I thought we played well,” said Simon. “We wanted to get up early and we were able to do that, and we played better on defense also.”

The Bulldogs will not be in action this Friday, but will on Saturday. The travel to Vienna to play the Vienna-Goreville Eagles at 1 p.m.

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